7 items to get you through apple season -- from picking to pie. 

Memories of apple-picking come in silent vignettes for me, flashes of rural orchards and empty bushels and testing the strength of my 12-year-old forearms, a little fog for dramatic effect. 

It's October, people, which means: bring on the apples. Whole apples, juice, cider, sauce -- we're ready to start embracing the season, one apple-y dish at a time. Here are 10 to get you started.

Some things just go together -- and the obvious accompaniment to food is drink. Today marks the launch of Booze52, in which we explore all manner of libations that do much more than just wash down a meal.

We figured a good place to start was an exploration of the world’s greatest cocktails of all time. Why are they worth ordering or making, and what made them so damn great in the first place? So, welcome to Classic Cocktails from A to Z. We start with an inscrutable cocktail called the Algonquin.